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Published by J. A. MELVILLE. 

1888. 



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Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1888, by J. 
Melville, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at 
Washington, D. C. 



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W. J. BARKER & CO., 
238 Carter St., Phila. 




INDEX 



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1. Treatment of Familiar Diseases 

2. Miscellaneous Medical Advice 

3. Valuable Household Recipes 

4. Interesting Experiments, . 

5. Useful Information, ... 

6. Hints for the Household, . 

7. Thoughts for the Wise, . . 



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Publisher's Preface. 

IN introducing '' The Peoples' Friend" to the pub- 
lic, we would simply state that its title is a com- 
plete index to the character of the work, for it is pure p. 
and simply a book for the people. It contains much 
matter that will well repay careful perusal, and every 
recipe, experiment or suggestion contained in the 
pages has the merit of having stood the most severe 
tests, so that readers may have no hesitation in 
trying their practical value. With these facts to re- 
commend it, we believe **The Peoples' Friend" will 
speedily find its way into every house in America, 
and become what the publisher desire to make it, 
a true "Family Treasury." 




THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND. 



REMEDY FOR DROPSY. 

Take green broom, juniper root and dandelion 
of each half an ounce. Boil in one pint and a half of 
water till reduced to one pint, then strain off. Dose, 
wine-glassful twice daily. 

FOR GOUT. 
Colchicum wine one ounce, spirits of nitrous 
ether one ounce, iodide of potassium two scruples, 
distilled water, two ounces. Dose, a teaspoonful in 
camomile tea, three times a day. 

CURE FOR WORMS. 
Common salt two drachms, cochineal, two scru- 
ples. Dose, half a drachm every morning. 

CURE FOR INDIGESTION. 
Take equal parts of rhubard, calcined magnesia, 
and powdered Jamaica ginger. Dose, one teaspoon- 
ful in water every second day. 

For asthma and other chest complaints ; Spanish 
juice, half an oz. ; water, 3 gills ; boil ; add ipecacuana 
wine, half an ounce, carbonate of ammonia, quarter of 
an oz. Dose three tablespoonfuls three times daily. 



FOR RHEUMATISM. 
Take common salt and capsicum ; of each half a 
teaspoonful ; best vinegar, one pint. Rub well in. 

MIXTURE FOR GRAVEL. 

Carbonate of soda, 2 scruples ; compound pow- 
der of tragacanth two drachms, tincture of hyoscy- 
annis, 4 drachms ; water, 7 ounces. Dose, two table- 
spoonfuls three times a day. 

REMEDY FOR LIVER DISEASE. 
Dandelion root, four ounces; best ginger, (bruised) 
one ounce , calumber root, one-quarter of an ounce. 
Bruise and boil all together, in three pints of water 
until reduced to a quart ; strain. Dose, one wine- 
glassful every four hours. This is a sovereign remedy 

CURE FOR WEAK EYES, 
Take a lump of white copperas about the size of 
a pea, put it into a vial holding about 2 ounces of water 
Carry this in the pocket and occasionally take out the 
cork, turn the vial upon the finger's end and thus 
bathe the eyes. This will effect a cure in a short 
time. 

ANOTHER CURE. 

Zinc sulphate, 20 grains ; sodium chloride, 20 
grains; rose water, i fluid oz; drop a small quantity 
into the eye, sometime afterward bathe with tepid 
water. 

MIXTURE FOR DIARRHCEA. 
Powdered alum, 240 grains ; powd. kino, 60 grs.; 
powd. opium, 3 grs. Mix and divide into 12 equal 



portions. Use only in obstinate cases, in which one 
powder should be administered eveiy 2 or 3 hours. 

INJECTION FOR GONORRHCEA. 

Zinc Sulphate, 15 grs.; lead acetate, 30 grs.; 
ext. opium, 5 grs.; tannin, 2 grs.; rose water, 3 fluid 
oz. Mix and apply in the usual manner. 

Another. — Oil of santal, 5 fluid oz.; oil copabia, 4 
fluid drachms ; oil of cubeb, 4 fluid drachms ; oil of 
pimenta, I fluid drachm; oil of cassia, i fluid drachm; 
alcohol sufficient to make 16 fluid oz. Dose, i tea- 
spoonful in water twice daily. 

REMEDY FOR POISONS. 
Made mustard, two tablespoonfuls, mixed in warm 
water. It acts as an instantaneous emetic, and if 
quickly applied may save many lives that otherwise 
would be lost. 

OINTMENT FOR BURNS. 
The following is an excellent recipe : Yellow 
Bislican, 3 oz.; turpentine, i^ oz. 

TREATMENT OF BURNS. 
The first essential in cases of burns or scalds is 
to cover them as quickly as possible from the influ- 
ence of the atmosphere. Flour applied from a com- 
mon sifter shaken on the wound and light wrappings 
of oiled lint or white cotton rag will surely effect this. 

ANTIDOTE FOR POISONOUS SNAKE BITES. 

The following simple remedy will be found to act 

with the best results in cases of poisoning through 

bites from rattle-snakes and other reptiles whose bites 



are usually fatal. Bromine, 150 grs,; potassium io- 
dide, 2 grs.; corrosive chloride of mercury, i gr.; dilu- 
ted alcohol, 4 fluid ozs. 

Directions for use, — Take 10 drops in a tablespoon- 
ful of whiskey or brandy every 15 minutes. 



MISCELLANEOUS MEDICAL ADVICE. 



A SURE PREVENTATIVE FOR TOOTHACHE. 

With 2 ozs. alcohol add 2 tablespoonful of salt, 
^ gill of water. When salt is dissolved, hold the so- 
lution in the mouth. If you do not want to lose your 
teeth, this is one of the best remedies known. 

AN INFALLIBLE PAIN KILLER. 
Equal parts of oil of juniper berries and turpen- 
tine. This simple mixture will give speedy relief in 
cases of rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, etc. It will 
also be found an excellent specific for removing corns, 
bunions, etc., if applied on a soft rag and allowed to 
remain for seven hours. 

A PERFECT BLOOD PURIFIER. 
The following is unquestionably the best recipe, 
as a blood purifier and system tonic, that has yet been 
given to the public : Pipsipaway herbs, 2 oz. ; hard- 
hack, 2 oz. Pulverize them and mix with, sulphur, 4 
oz. ; magnesia, 2 oz. ; one quart of alchohol and one 
pint of hot water. Strain well and when cold take 
from one teaspoonful to one tablespoonful, thrice daily, 
(according to age and effect on sy^stem), half hour 
before meals. 



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BITES OF MOSQUITOS, GNATS, FLEAS, ETC. 

Use lemon juice or arnica lotion, this will speedi- 
ly remove the inflammation and give almost instan- 
taneous relief. 

FOR GROWING WHISKERS. 
Eau de Cologne, 6 oz. ; tincture of cantharides, i 
drachm ; oil of rosemary, oil of lavender, oil of nutmeg, 
each lO drops. Apply daily. 

HAIR TONIC. 
The following recipe has often proved an effectual 
remedy in cases of baldness : Lard, 2 oz. ; tincture of 
cantharides, i drachm ; bergamot, 20 drops. Melt the 
lard and put in the other ingredients and mix well 
together, rub well into the scalp every other day. 

AN EXCELLENT ODORLESS DISINFECT- 



FECTANT,/. ^ ,,,.. , , -li-f^i^- 
Ten cents worth of penaailg'^t««te*of potassium 
in about one quart of water. For fever rooms soak 
a sheet in a weak solution of the above, when too 
strong it will discolor the sheet or linen but will wash 
out. 

TO PRESERVE GOOD DIGESTION 

Use the following : Ettaquesia, ^oz. ; epsom 
salts, 2 oz. ; tartaric acid, i}^ oz. ; bi-carbonate soda 
2 oz. ; ' cream of tartar, 2 oz. ; castor sugar, 5 oz. 
Dry in warm oven, mix well, bottle and keep dry. 

SIGNS OF THE TONGUE. 

The tongue is the indicator of the system. A 
white coated tongue indicates febrile disturbance , a 



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brown, moist tongue indicates disordered digestion or 
overloaded passages ; a brown, dry tongue indicates 
depressed vitality, as in typhoid conditions and blood 
poisoning ; a red, moist tongue indicates debility, as 
from exhausting discharges ; a red dry tongue indi- 
cates pyrexia, or any inflammatory fever; a ''straw- 
berry" tongue, with prominent papillae, indicates scar- 
let fever or rotheln ; a red, glazed tongue indicates 
debility, with want of assimilative power of digestion ; 
a tremulous, flabby tongue indicates delirium tremens • 
hesitancy in protruding the tongue indicates concus- 
sion of the brain. 

MIXTURE FOR BILE. 
Infusion of gentian, 8 oz. ; sulphate of magnesia 
^oz. Dose, wineglassful every morning. 

FOR SORE THROATS. 
Infusion of roses, 7 oz. ; tincture of myrrh, ^oz 
Use as a gargle when required. 

RELIEF FOR TOOTHACHE. 
Alum, I drachm; spirits of nitrous either, 3 
drachms. Dip a bit of raw cotton in it and apply to 
the tooth. 

CHAPPED HANDS. 
Wash the hands in tepid water, using a pure 
soap, dry well and dust with finely powdered oatmeal, 
or cornmeal. 

TO CREATE AN APPETITE. 
Compound tincture of gentian, half an ounce, sal 
volatile, half a teaspoonful, cinnamon water, one oz 



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compound tincture of cardamons, one teaspoonful. 
The draught to be taken one hour before a meal. 

ESSENCE FOR HEADACHE. 
Spirits of wine, i oz. ; camphor, 4 drachms ; vol- 
atile spirits of camphor, 4 drachms. Mix. Rub into 
the head with the hand. 

TO CURE A SEVERE COUGH. 
Half a pint of wine vinegar ; half an ounce Span- 
ish juice; I oz. rock candy; I oz. alcohol. Mix thor- 
oughly and take a tablespoonful three times daily. 

A PREVENTATIVE AGAINST COLDS.. 

If you are afraid of catching cold from wet feet 
or wet clothing, keep moving briskly about and drink 
rum and water. This is a rare chance for a man to 
get half drunk, for in this case it will do him a world 
of good. 

CERTAIN CURE FOR HOARSENESS. 

Drink frequently of barley and liqourice water; 
eat black currant jelly; gargle the mouth twice or 
thrice every morning with the syrup of hedge must- 
ard, diluted in mild warm water. Frequently drink 
lemonade; eat oranges, etc., during the day, and the 
hoarseness will not return. 

IMPERIAL DRINK FOR THE SICK ROOM. 
Pour one quart of boiling water on a quarter of 
an ounce of cream of tartar; add a few chips of lemon 
or orange and ^ oz. of rock candy. Clear, and whea 
cold use as a drink in cases of fever. 



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CURE FOR CHILBLAINS. 

Rub the parts affected with common salt and al- 
cohol, which hardens the feet and at the same time 
removes the inflammation. A third application cures 
the worst chilblains. 

A CURE FOR HEADACHE. 

JPut a handful of salt into a quart of water ; add 
I oz. of hartshorne and ^ an oz. of camphorated 
spirits of wine. Put them quickly into a bottle and 
cork tightly to prevent the escape of the spirits. Soak 
a piece of cloth or brown paper with the mixture and 
apply to the head. Repeat when it becomes dry or 
heated. 

SULPHUR WILL CURE SCARLET FEVER. 

In severe cases anoint the body thoroughly with 
sulphur ointment twice daily. Give five to ten grains 
of sulphur on a little jam three times a day, and twice 
every day thoroughly fumigate the room with sulphur. 
In less than eight days complete recovery will be ef- 
fected, but great care must be taken to guard against 
cold. 

Sulphur as a cure for dyphtheria. For young chil- 
dren, use sulphur milk ; for older children and adults, 
use flowers of sulphur. Dissolve in glycerine, and 
give a teaspoonful or more, according to age, three or 
four times daily. To be swallowed slowly. Anoint 
the lips and nostrils with the same mixture, applied 
on a sponge. 



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CAMPHOR, A CERTAIN CURE FOR 
CHOLERA. 

In Ireland, in the years 1836 and 1848, when 
cholera made its deadly ravages through the land the 
sovereign remedy for the dreaded disease was Cam- 
phor, applied as follows : Dissolve i oz. of camphor, 
6 oz of spirits of wine, and bottle. When a person 
is seized 'with symptoms of cholera, do not wait for 
the doctor. Put him or her to bed and cover warmly 
(but do not cverload) with bed-clothes, Then take a 
small lump of sugar, and pour on it two drops of the 
camphor liquid. Two minutes later, repeat the dose, 
and repeat again five minutes later. Afterward allow 
the patient to remain perfectly still for from 10 to 15 
minutes, to see if warmth and perspiration follow. If 
the symptoms are still unfavorable, repeat the doses 
till 14 or 16 drops have been taken. Do not give the 
patient any brandy or whiskey, nor any other medi- 
cine, whatever, or the effects of the camphor will be 
destroyed. After the full doses have been adminis- 
tered let the patient remain perfectly quiet. When 
perspiration begins, he or she will fall asleep, and 
awake cured, but weak. Feed for a day or two till 
strength returns, on soup, broth or gruel, and in no 
case allow the patient to get the least cold. 

A SIMPLE CURE FOR LOCKJAW. 

When lockjaw has been caused by a wound, 
wherever the wound is, take a small quantity of tur- 
pentine, warm it, and pour over. Complete relief will 
speedily follow. In cases of severe cuts or bruises, 



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cold turpentine if applied is the best remedy extant. 
Turpentine is also a sure cure for croup, if it is ap- 
plied to the throat and chest on a piece of flannel, 
while two or three drops may be taken inwardly on a 
lump of loaf sugar. 




VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 



TO MAKE VINEGAR. 

Mix cider and honey in the proportion of one 
gallon of the former to a pound of the latter, and 
after it has stood for some months, the vinegar will 
require to be diluted with water for common use. 

RASPBERRY VINEGAR. 

Mash two quarts of raspberries, let them stand 
in a pan to get sour; strain the juice through a sieve, 
and to every pint put a pound of loaf sugar, and a 
pint of Beaufoy's crystal vinegar (or the usual white 
vinegar) ; let it boil ten minutes ; skim, and when 

cold, bottle. 

ORGEAT. 

Blanch two pounds of sweet, and a ^ pound ot 
bitter almonds, rub them to paste in a mortar with 
water, strain, and add 4 pounds of lump sugar to the 
liquid. Boil together with a quarter of a pint of 
orange-flower water, ten minutes, and skim, when 
cold bottle, 

' TO RECOVER FLAT ALE OR BEER. 

Take five gallons from the hogshead of flat ale or 
beer, boil them with five pounds of honey, skim it well, 
and when cold, put it back into the hogshead, and 
bung it up close. 



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PRIMROSE VINEGAR. 

To fifteen quarts of water put 6 pounds of brown 
sugar, let it boil ten minutes, then skim, pour on it 
half a peck of primroses before it is quite cold, put 
in a little fresh yeast, and let it work in a warm place 
all night, put into a barrel, and when it has done 
working, close the barrel, still keeping it in a warm 
place. 

MALT AND MOLASSES. 

Pour eight gallons of water at one hundred and 
seventy degrees on a bushel of malt. Mash well ; let 
it stand three Tiours ; draw it off, and then add eight 
gallons more water at one hundred and ninety-six 
degrees. Mash, and let it stand two hours ; add eight 
gallons of cold water to the grain, and let it stand 
three hours and a half. Mix 28 pounds of West India 
molasses in 20 gallons of water, and boil the whole 
with 2 pounds of hops for two hours. When the 
liquor is cooled down to eighty-five degrees, add half 
a pint of yeast ; cover it with a sack, stir it well, and 
let it ferment twenty-four hours. In proper time you 
will have thirty-six gallons of ale. 

TO MAKE GOOD GINGER BEER. 
White sugar, 3 pounds ; bruised ginger, 2 ozs.; 
cream of tartar, i oz.; 4 lemons, sliced ; boiling water, 
four gallons ; yeast, half a pint. Pour the water on 
the first named ingredients and let them stand for two 
hours ; then add the yeast, and when fermentation has 
continued for a few hours, run into stone bottles and 
wire the corks down. 



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TO PREVENT BEER FROM GROWING FLAT. 
In a cask containing eighteen gallons of beer, be- 
coming vapid, put a pint of ground malt, suspended in 
a bag, and close the bung perfectly; the beer will be 
improved the whole time of drawing it for use. 

RECIPE FOR FRENCH POLISH. 
To half a pint of rectified naptha add an ounce 
and a half of shellac, a quarter of an ounce of benzoine, 
a quarter of an ounce of gum frankincense, quarter of 
an ounce of gum juniper, crush the gum and mix them 
in a bottle. When dissolved it is ready for use. 

DIRECTIONS FOR USE. 

Take a piece of wadding or flannel, moisten it 
with the polish, then cover the wadding over with a 
rag, then take a little raw linseed oil in a cup, dip the 
end of your finger in the oil and put it on the outer 
side of the calico rag, and when you find it stick, add 
a little more oil. When you get a body of polish 
upon the furniture, get a penny-worth of rectified 
naptha in a bottle by itself, use it on a new piece of 
flannel or wadding, and a piece of calico to cover it 
over, damp the wadding a little with the spirits, then 
rub it lightly over till the rubber is dry. 

TO TAKE IRON MOULDS OR RUST OUT OF 

LINEN. 

Dissolve the powder of burnt alum in the juice 
of lemon, wet the place with it and dry it with the 
back of a hot iron spoon, in the fore part of which is 
a live coal ; and in doing it five or six times the iron 
mould will wash out. 



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DAMSON WINE. 

Take a good quantity of damsons and common 
plums, which should be tolerably ripe, slit them in 
halves, so that the stones will come out, then wash 
them gently, add a little water and honey. To every 
gallon of the pulp, a gallon of spring water, with a 
few cloves and bay leaves ; boil the mixture and add as 
much sugar as will sweeten it; skim off the froth and 
let it cool. Now press the fruit, squeezing out the 
liquor ; strain it through a fine strainer, and put the 
water and juice together into a cask. Let it stand and 
ferment for three or four days ; fine with whites of 
eggs ; draw it off into bottles and cork it well. In 
twelve days it will be ripe. 

MULBERRY WINE. 

Gather mulberries on a dry day, when they have 
just changed from redness to a shining black ; spread 
them thinly on a fine cloth, or on a clean floor or 
table, for twenty-four hours, and then press them. 
Boil a gallon of water for every gallon of juice, put- 
ting an ounce of cinnamon bark, and six ounces of 
sugar candy finely powdered, to each gallon of water. 
When the water is taken off and settled, skim and 
strain it, and put it to the mulberry juice. Then add 
to every gallon of the mixture a pint of white or 
renish wine. Let the whole stand in a cask to fer- 
ment for five or six days. When settled draw it off 
into bottles, and keep cool. 

Milk that has become sour, may be sweetened 
again by adding a small quantity of carbonate of soda. 



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TO CLEAN GLASS DECANTERS. 
Cut some raw potatoes in pieces ; put them in a 
bottle with water ; rinse thoroughly and they will 
become clean and bright. 

TO CLEAN SILVER. 

Wash the articles well in hot water and soap ; 
then polish with rouge and chamois leather or fine 
London whiting. If neither of these can be procured, 
hartshorn powder will answer as a substitute. 

TO PREVENT FLIES INJURING PICTURE 

FRAMES. 
Boil three or four onions in one pint of water; 
brush your frames over with the liquid. No fly will 
touch them and it will not injure your frames. 

TO PRESERVE EGGS. 

Make a box 2 ft. x i ft. 6 in. ; make divisions 3 
inches apart in which holes have been made to receive 
the eggs. Take the eggs when newly laid and place 
in these holes, small ends downward, and if left undis- 
turbed your eggs will keep for several months in per- 
fectly sound condition. 

BLACK CHERRY BRANDY. 

Stone eight pounds of black cherries, and put on 
them a gallon of the best brandy. Bruise the stones 
in a mostar, and then put them into your brandy. 
Cover them up close and let them stand a month or 
six weeks. Then pour it clear from the sediments 
and bottle it. Morello cherries managed in this man- 
ner make a fine rich cordial. 



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RED CURRANT WINE. 
Gather the currants in dry weather; put them 
into a pan and bruise them with a wooden pestle ; let 
them stand about twenty hours, after which, strain 
them through a sieve ; add three pounds of. finely 
powdered sugar to every gallon of the liquor, and 
after shaking it well, fill the vessel. If it does not 
prove quite clear in two or three months, draw it off 
into another vessel, and let it stand a few days previous 
to bottling off 

RASPBERRY WINE. 
Gather the raspberries when ripe ; husk and bruise 
them ; then strain through a bag into jars or other ves- 
sels. To every gallon of juice, allow a pound and a 
half of loaf sugar. When dissolved, decant the liquor 
into a cask. When it has fermented, add a pint of 
white wine, or half a pint of proof spirits to every gal- 
lon contained in the cask, and hang a bag in it con- 
taining an ounce of bruised mace. In three months, 
if kept in a cool place, it will be fit for use. 

CURRY FISH. 

Put into a sauce-pan four onions, a small bunch 
of bay leaves, thyme, and savory ; two apples if con- 
venient, with a quarter of a pound of fat, three ounces 
of salt, and a quarter of an ounce of sugar, and fry 
fifteen minutes. Put one pound of rice and four quarts 
of water and boil till tender; add one ounce of curry 
powder, mixed in a little water. Cut up six pounds 
of fish into pieces the size of an egg ; add to the above 
and boil for twenty or thirty minutes. 



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GINGER WINE. 

To seven gallons of water, put nineteen pounds 
of sugar and boil it for half an hour, removing the 
scum as it raises, then a small quanity of liquor, and 
add to it nine ounces of the best ginger bruised. 
Put it all together and when nearly cold, chop nine 
pounds of raisins very small and put them in a nine gal- 
lon cask. Slice four lemons into the cask after taking 
out the seeds, and pour tl;ie liquor over them, with 
half a pint of fresh yeast. Leave it unstopped for 
three weeks, keeping it filled up, and in about six or 
nine months it will be fit for bottling. 

GOOSEBERRY WINE. 
Gather gooseberries when they are about half 
ripe, in dry weather. Pick them clean, put a peck at 
a time into a vessel convenient for the purpose, and 
bruise them with a piece of wood, being as careful as 
possible to keep the seeds whole. Having put the 
pulp into a canvas bag, press out all the juice; to 
every gallon of which add two pounds of fine loaf su- 
gar ; mix the whole together by stirring it with a stick, 
and when the sugar is quite dissolved pour it into a 
cask which will exactly contain it. If the quantity be 
nine gallons, let it stand for a fortnight; if twenty gal- 
lons, forty days ; and so on in proportion, taking care 
to keep it in a cool place. After standing the proper 
time, draw it off from the lees, and pour it into a cask 
of equal size, or into the same, after pouring away the 
lees and making it clean. Let a cask often or twelve 
gallons stand for about three months, and twenty gal- 
lons for five months, after which it will be fit for bot- 
tling off. 



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TO TAKE SPOTS OUT OF LIiNEN. 

Take two spoonfuls of the juice of onions, and 
as much Hme juice, wet it two or three times, as often 
drying it by the fire, wash it immediately in a good 
laver, and it is done. 

TO CLEAN GOLD AND RESTORE THE 

LUSTRE. 

Dissolve a small quantity of sal ammoniac in 
urine; boil your soiled gold therein and it will become 
clean and brilliant. 

TO REMOVE SPOTS FROM SILK OR VELVET. 

Take sopwort (a well-known herb), bruise and 
strain out the juice, add to this a little soft soap; mix 
well to a moderate thickness, rub over the stained or 
spotted place ; wash out with warm water and allow 
to dry. If not satisfactory with first application, re- 
peat. 

TO TAKE INK OUT OF MAHOGANY. 

Dilute half a teaspoonful of oil of vitriol with a 
large spoonful of water, and touch the part with a 
feather, wash it, for if it stay too long it will leave a 
white mark. It is, therefore, better to rub it quick, 
and repeat if not removed. 

STAINING WOOD TO IMITATE MAHOGANY. 
Get a small quantity of.dragons blood, powdered, 
then mix a little of your polish with the dragons blood 
in a bottle. 



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EBONY. 
Get a small quantity of drop black and mix in 
the same way. 

SATIN WOOD. 

A quarter ot an ounce of chrome yellow to four 
ounces of the polish. 

ROSEWOOD STAIN. 

Quarter ounce of chrome yellow, dragon's blood 
and drop black. Powder these and mix with a suit- 
able quantity of furniture polish to work easily. 

TO MAKE CHEAP SHOE BI^ACKING, 
Take four ounces of ivory black, three ounces of 
the coarsest sugar, a table-spoonful of sweet oil and a 
pint of small beer, with half a spoonful of oil of vitrol; 
mix them gradually. cold. 

TO MAKE GIN. 

Spirits of wine two ounces, spirits of nitric ether 
twenty drops, essence of juniper two drops, water six 
ounces, mix with a small bit of loaf sugar. 

TO MAKE RUM. 

Omit the juniper in the gin recipe and add a 
little burnt sugar. 

TO MAKE WHISKY. 
Alcohol two ounces, essence of prunes twenty 
drops, water five ounces, sugar. Mix. 

TO MAKE BRANDY. 
Alcohol two ounces, essence of cognac three 
drops, water six ounces, sugar. Mix. 



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TO TELL GOOD EGGS, 
Place your eggs in water; if the botts turn up, 
the eggs are in good condition; if not then be sure 
they are not fresh. 

TO MAKE BEER IMMEDIATELY. 
Spirits of wine half an ounce, essence of malt 
% o\ an ounce, black juice two drachms, water half a 
n pint. Mix. 

TO EXTRACT PRINTING MATTER FROM 

BOOKS, &c. 
Muriatic acid one drachm, water six drachms. 
Apply gently. Wash oft after with cold water. 

TO DYE THE HAIR. 
Nitrate of silver two drachms, steel filings half 
an ounce, rain water eight ounces. Shake together, 
let it subside for a time, pour off the supernatant 
liquor which constitutes the dye. Apply with a close 
brush. 

AN INFALLIBLE MEANS TO EXTINGUISH 
A CHIMNEY ON FIRE. 

Take a handful of sulphur and throw it on the 
fire, when the sulphurous fumes ascend up the chim- 
ney it will immediately put out the fire in chimney. 

A solution of five grains of muriate of ammonia in 
one gallon of water will put out any fire whether it 
be a house in flames, clothes or anything else. 

The above is a very valuable recipe and is not 
much known, for if it was the fire brigade would adopt 
it immediately. 



INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. 



FIRE EATING. 
Anoint your tongue with liquid stosan and you 
may lick a red hot poker with impunity. 

A MIRACULOUS LIGHT. 
The effect of this experiment never fails to pro- 
duce a sensation. ■ Dip paper or wood into turpentine, 
apply a piece of chloride of potash, then touch with 
sulphuric acid and immediate combustion will follow. 

THE ENCHANTED FOWL. 

Bring a fowl into a room with your hands' close 
to its wings and hold them tight, put him on a table 
and point his beak down as straight as possible, then 
draw a line with chalk direct from its beak and all the . 
noise you can make cannot disturb him out of that 
position. 

TO WALK ON RED-HOT IRON. 

Camphor, ^ an oz. ; aqua vitae, 2 oz. ; quicksil- 
ver, I oz. ; liquid stosan, I oz. ; hematis, 2 oz. Mix 
all together, arid previous to performing the feat, an- 
oint the feet with this preparation, after which you 
may walk on red-hot iron without any discomfort or 
danger. 



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TO BOIL AN EGG WITHOUT FIRE. 

Take two tumblers, one much smaller than the 
other and the inner tumbler very thin, place the egg 
inside the inner tumbler and cover with cold water, 
then let a mixture of one part of water and four parts 
of the strongest oil of vitriol be poured into the out- 
side glass, in a short time the egg will be boiled. 

A DARING EXPERIMENT. 

The experimenter, after using the following re- 
cipe, may wash his hands in molten lead with perfect 
safety: Quick silver, i oz. ; bole ammonise, 2 oz. ; 
camphor, ^^ an oz. ; aqua vitae, 2 oz. Put them in a 
mortar and mix well together. Rub the hand all 
over with this ointment, and you are safe from all 
harm. 

TO MAKE SYMPATHETIC INK 

Write with a weak solution of prussiate of potash ; 
when you wish the writing to appear, dip it in a weak 
solution oT sulphate of iron it will become blue; if you 
wish it to appear red, dip it in sulphate of copper; to 
appear black, dip it in sulphuric acid; to remove it, 
dip it in spirits of ammoniac. If 3^ou write on blue 
paper with liquid potash, the letters will appear white. 

TO MAKE RED INK. 

Take three pints of stale beer, rather than vin- 
egar, and four ounces of ground Brazil wood, simmer 
them together for ten or fifteen minutes, then put in 
four ounces of roach alum, and these are to simmer 
together for five or ten minutes, till by putting in a 



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slip of clean white paper you perceive the color to be 
strong enough — After straining it through a flannel or 
rag, add one ounce of gum arabic, then bottle it up 
and stop it down till wanted .for use. 



HOUSEHOLD HINTS. 



TO SCALE FISH. 

Dip for an instant in boihng water, and the task 
will be an easy one. 

Tainted meat will become sweet again, if left out- 
side over night in the cool air. 

Falling out hair may be checked by the applica- 
tion of salt water to the scalp. 

Machine grease is easily removed from washing 
fabrics by simply washing with cold rain water and 
soap. 

Clean boiling water will remove tea stains from 
linen. Pour the water through the stain to prevent its 
spreading over the surface. 

Hot water starch may be greatly improved by 
stirring in a little sperm or common salt. Melted 
gum-arabic added gives a beautiful gloss. 

A tablespoonful of turpentine added to the water 
in your clothes-boiler, will greatly aid the whiting pro- 
cess, and will not injure the most delicate materials. 



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Stoves, farm implements, and iron and steel of 
every class, when laid aside for a season will not rust 
if rubbed over with kerosene applied with a rag. 

Salt curdles milk as soon as added, therefore, 
in preparing gravies or other dishes where sweet milk 
is used, do not use the salt till your dish is cooked. 

If boots have become hard and uncomfortable 
through water, or other causes, they will become pli- 
able and soft as when new, if rubbed well with kero- 
sene. 

The quickest way to make salt fish fresh is to 
steep them in sour milk. ' By this process they are 
much more palatable than when soaked for days in 
water. 

The easiest and simplest way to clean silver or 
gold j.ewelry is to wash it in moderately hot water 
with ammonia added. Proportion : i teaspoonful to 
each cup of water. 

^ The application of chloroform will remove hard 
and dry paint stains on either cotton or woolen mate- 
rials ; to quicken the process, rub the spots over with 
fresh butter or olive oil. 

If your smoothing irons are rusty, smoked, or 
dull on the face, sprinkle some fine common salt on a 
sheet of card board or other smooth surface, and rub 
the iron thereon. They will soon become bright, and 
work as easily as could be wished for. 



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Clothes that have become yellow with age or 
through careless washing may be whitened consider- 
ably by the addition of a teaspoonful of finely pow- 
dered borax to the last water in which they are rinsed. 

There is no liquid which more readily carries bad 
gases or infection, than milk. If sewer gases or in- 
fectious disease exists near a room where milk is kept, 
sprinkle the room daily with fresh powdered charcoal 
which will absorb the germs of disease, or foul gases 
that exist. ' 

In whitewashing cellars or other underground 
apartments where foul gases are likely to lodge, use 
lime and water only. The addition of foreign sub- 
stances such as glue, paste, etc., only tends to increase 
the evil, as the organic matter contained in them soon 
becomes putrid, and more than counteracts all the 
good qualities of lime as a purifier or disinfectant. 

To remove hardened paint from glass, do not use 
a knife or other sharp instrument, which scratches 
and permanently injures and disfigures the glass. 
First lay on a coating of strong soda, and in a few 
minutes, if the stains are still hard, rub with the face 
of a new coin. The edges of the coin will lift the 
paint without leaving any marks. 



THOUGHTS FOR THE* WISE 



Let ybur purchases be ruled by the contents of 
• your purse. 

Every man's home is his castle, but every man's 
house is not his home. 

''Light weights bring heavy sins," is a fitting 
motto for many storekeepers. 

Right is might, but might is not always right, al- 
though It usually claims to be so. 

The fool is obstinate and unchangeable ; the wise 
man can be convinced that he was wrong. 

, Your house is never too small to accommodate 
a friend who has plenty of room in your heart. 

The old maxim that ** Silks and satins put out 
the kitchen fire," is well known, but too often forgot- 
ten. 

A clear conscience and a light heart go together. 
If you have not the former, you cannot have the 
latter. 

Example is better than precept. People judge 
much more readily from what they see than from what 
they hear. 



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There is two sides to everything ; even our great- 
est troubles have their bight sides if we will only 
seek them. 

Do not judge men by what you see of them in 
company. There is such things as causeway saints 
and house devils. 

Have the courage of your opinions at all times, but 
never obtrude your opinion on people who do not 
wish to have it. 

Civility costs nothing, and makes many friends ; 
the rude grunt is brutish, and often causes a good man 
to be misjudged. 

Let reason rule your feelings, and not feelings 
the reason. This is always a wise course, and saves 
many fatal errors. 

It is an easy thing to go into the law courts, but 
it is a hard thing to get out of them. Think of this 
before you get there. 

Give to a pig when it grunts, and to a child when 
it cries ; the result will be a fine pig, and a child that 
is an intolerable nuisance. 

We frequently bring upon ourselves that which 
could be avoided, by forming foregone conclusions. 
Never prophesy till you see. 

Never call a man a fool, or you liken yourself 
unto the epithet you apply to him. No man is a fool 
always, he is wise in some things. 



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It is not how long, but how well we live, there- 
fore, improve the time as it flies, for ye know not what 

a day or an hour may bring forth. 

• 

A contented mind is better than riches. Riches 
are a trouble to keep, but the contented mind is a 
treasure which nothing can ever rob you of. . 

Life without hope is worse than Death, but there 
is no reason why any should live with.out hope. Hope 
is a bright star which should pierce the darkest clouds. 

We are never too old to learn, but frequently too 
proud. Learn at all times, even if it should be from 
your enemies ; they are often the best teachers, al- 
though not the most pleasant. 

Pride may climb high, but the fall" will be the 
greater. There is a difference between pride and self- 
respect, which many persons fail to perceive. Hold 
to the latter, but avoid the former. 

Who is a brave man, who ? 
He who dares defend the right, 
When right is miscalled wTong, 
He w^ho shrinks not from the fight 
When weak contend with strong ! 
Who fearing God, fears none beside 
And dares do right, whate're betide. 
This man hath courage true. 



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